Green Freight
Reduce emissions and improve efficiency
Freight movement accounts for 8 percent of all corporate greenhouse gas emissions, making it one of the largest carbon footprint contributors. The emissions come directly from all the trucks, trains, ships and planes that carry goods between each node of the supply chain. There are huge financial incentives for reducing the environmental impact from freight … and companies have the power to make it happen. By employing smarter logistics strategies, they can operate more efficiently and affordably.
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Ocean Freight
Ocean freight is the most environmentally sustainable global shipping option. Learn how to make this a major piece of your intermodal mix.
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Air freight is the most expensive and carbon-intensive transport mode. Optimizing your air freight usage can lead to big economic and environmental benefits.
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Rail transport burns a lot less fuel, and emits a great deal less greenhouse gases, than trucks.
View All Rail Freight ResourcesRoad Freight
Thirty-six percent of U.S. truck trailers are underutilized. Capturing just half of this capacity would cut freight truck emissions by 100 million tons per year.
View All Road Freight ResourcesWarehouses, Distribution Centers, Facilities
Warehouses, distribution centers and facilities can be a great place to start when looking for energy efficiencies.
View All Warehouses, Distribution Centers, Facilities ResourcesMeasuring & Reporting
New technologies and methodologies are making data collection, analysis and sharing simpler, faster and more effective. This provides key information back to stakeholders throughout the supply chain. Measuring and reporting should help your supply chain partners tell their story better.
View All Measuring & Reporting ResourcesStakeholder Engagement
Understanding the motivations of different groups involved in your supply chain is a challenge, but can go a long way when showing how your goals are relevant and beneficial to them!
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While voluntary corporate actions to reduce GHG emissions are important, only public policy can deliver the pace and scale of reductions needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. That’s why policy advocacy is an essential element of corporate sustainability leadership. Companies can make a difference by supporting policies that drive down greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, unleash innovation and accelerate the transition to a low-carbon freight system.
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Companies implementing freight optimization plans often cut costs in addition to emissions. Explore case studies on companies that have achieved financial gains on top of their environmental ones to build the business case for your company’s freight optimization strategy.
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In the U.S., freight transport accounts for 16 percent of corporate greenhouse gas emissions, making it one of the largest carbon footprint contributors.
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Looking for solutions that are uniquely relevant to you and your company? Here you can filter by resource title, date, type. Below (left) you can filter by narrowing categories and sub-categories, as well as where each resource sits within the different levels of the sustainability journey.
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A Zero-Emissions Delivery Zone (ZED Zone) can accelerate commercial vehicle electrification and enable companies to hit their clean shipping goals.
02/18/2021
Report
A new report from EDF+Business, with analytical and research support from Deloitte Consulting, LLP, provides specific recommendations for the transportation and agriculture sectors, and for the retail and technology industries. It also includes a roadmap with detailed action items that companies, industries and sub-sectors can take today relative to their own operations, investments, coordination and advocacy to drive meaningful change, fast.
01/25/2021
Report
How people shop is changing. Creating a transparent online marketplace that offers safe and sustainable products is critical.
08/19/2020
Guide
Join EDF to learn why Lyft and Ford chose bold climate leadership in the midst of a pandemic, how they’re going to achieve their targets, and why advocating for policies supporting a net zero future is a crucial element of climate leadership.
07/29/2020
Webinar
Learn about the six quality objectives that buyers can use to ensure they are purchasing high quality carbon credits.
07/15/2020
Report
Kealy Herman, WSP, discusses how to ensure that your corporate targets are aligned with current climate science and how to determine which approach is right for your organization.
10/31/2019
Webinar
The Supply Chain Leadership Ladder is a maturity model that BSR has developed for companies to evaluate and evolve their approach to supply chain sustainability.
10/08/2019
Report
Theresa Eberhardt, EDF, discusses how to transition from goal-setting to implementation when quantifying your scope 3 emissions.
09/30/2019
Webinar
AT&T and the DOE's Argonne National Laboratory discuss the Climate Change Analysis Tool, which enables AT&T to visualize the impacts of climate change on business operations 30 years into the future.
09/30/2019
Webinar
This webinar will introduce you to the Supply Chain Leadership Ladder, a maturity model that BSR has developed for companies to evaluate and evolve their approach to supply chain sustainability.
02/28/2019
Webinar
Get your company started on the sustainability journey here! From overviews and introductions to advocating for policy, and everything in between, this is where you should start.
02/25/2019
Tool
Reducing freight’s impact on greenhouse gas emissions is a major, long-term challenge for logistics professionals. Critical progress can be made, though, starting today.
02/24/2019
Guide
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